Nelson Algren : a collection of critical essays / edited by Robert Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ward, Robert, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981--Criticism and interpretation.

Algren, Nelson.

Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

188 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2007]

Contents:

Nelson Algren : an American outsider / Bettina Drew

Nelson Algren's self-portrait as meaningful structure / Frédéric Dumas

A world of ruins : Nelson Algren and Walter Benjamin's destructive character / Stephen Hardman

Spatial enclosures in Nelson Algren's Never come morning / Robert Ward

Detachment, compassion, and irritability : the naturalism of Never come morning / Kasia Boddy

Making nakedness visible : narrative perspective in Nelson Algren's The man with the golden arm / James R. Giles

Textual outlaws : the colonized underclass in Nelson Algren's The man with the golden arm / Ian Peddie

The city that turned the White Sox black : post-World War II Chicago boosterism and the negation of Nelson Algren / Caroline Gottschalk-Druschke

Nelson Algren and carnival in 1930s America / Philip McGowan

It was dope! : the paperback revolution and the literary reputation of Nelson Algren / Bill Savage

Hanging with Nelson Algren : a brief look at the author and his milieu / Warren Leming

The Nelson Algren Archive at the Ohio State University Libraries / Elva Griffith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0838641083

OCLC:

69124417

Publisher Number:

9780838641088